Seeking your thoughts, advice and hopefully success stories for anyone that is dealing with Heel Fat Pad Syndrome.
I never heard of it either. Fat Pad Syndrome refers to an injury where there is a displacement of a portion of the fat pad that protects the heel.
Essentially part of my right calcaneus bone is very close to the surface of the skin due to bonking it on a curb in transition at IMMT 70.3. Over the past few months the fat pad has atrophied or simply squished to the side. You can feel the bone pretty easily.
I’m early in this diagnosis and from what I understand this may never heal and that options are 1) orthotics for life likely with pain every time you walk barefoot or 2) get a fat graft that may or may not work.
Looked into the fat graft and apparently heel fat pad is a pretty advanced evolutionary piece of anatomy and just putting ass fat in there has a high chance of failure.
With that said - Pile on with anything that may help me get grounded in what I’m in for with this. I’m signed up for IMLP and Quassy already hopeful.
Slightly different diagnosis - I can’t remember a specific incident that caused mine, and I can’t feel the bone. But a foot specialist has diagnosed me with it in my left foot and as fun would have it, plantar fasciatis in my right foot.
For the 3 days following a run, I can barely walk or stand and it feels like someone has been hitting the bottom of my feet with a hammer.
The only advice I was given was to tape it before running or walking, ice it, (roll a frozen water bottle), and go for ultra-sound therapy (and there’s debate as to effectiveness of that).
I’ve resolved to taking 3 months off completely, and slowly getting back into it.
I don’t have the fat pad syndrome, but I did have a heel injury a few years ago. I bought some hard-plastic heel cups that more or less squeezed the heel so that the squishy bits ended up under the center of the heel. It worked quite well. It wasn’t this brand, but this was the idea: https://www.amazon.com/Everything-Track-and-Field-Protectors/dp/B000670L92